POLS 2910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sports Radio, Quebecor, Big Data
6 Apr 2017
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The federal broadcasting act and telecommunications act sets out the regulatory and licensing framework for broadcasting and telecommunications in canada. The broadcast act in particular has a long list of earnest principles that it is hard to see reflected in the broadcast industry. All broadcasters and transmitters must be licenced because the airwaves are like a common and owned or controlled by the state. Regulating them prevents the chaos of overlapping signals that might come from complete privatization and deregulation. The media is the most important and perhaps most impartial(?) way we can inform ourselves about political life, what decisions are being considered or made, what our representatives think about and how they vote on those issues. The media is often the only place where we can become informed about debates around collective political decisions, those parts of our lives that are not in the market and over which we have some degree of democratic control.
